Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some dispatches in his possession, she goes to him on the second night, gets the papers, but loses her heart to him, although how she can is inconceivable. Then follows a great deal of melodrama, little of which is convincing. Her lover meets with an accident which leaves him blind. When she goes to see him in a hospital, she is arrested. In the final scene she marches out in a sweeping black robe in the center of the firing squad leaving her unwitting fiance behind; an ending that is perhaps tactful since myth has it that Mata Hari tore...
Linton Perry knows that he is silly to do his trick. Dr. Smith explained to him that unless he ceases his monkey shines instanter, one of these days he will go blind. He will stretch his optic nerves so much that fibres will tear. Or he will jar loose the retinas in his eye balls...
...chevaliers a beautiful little pink marble museum near their palace on the Quai d'Orsay. Commander Cromwell be came a Grand Officer of the Order with a large plaque to pin on his dress coat. Among his other benefactions may be listed the American Braille Press for the blind of which he is founder-president. and the $630,000 which he recently gave to the New York County Lawyers Association. In May Mr. Cromwell donated $50,000 to further scientific research in France. The money was divided among ten scientists selected by the French Government...
...airline properly operated, with radio and blind-flight facilities, will not put a plane into a position where 'chutes are called...
Amber sons, Alice Adams won the 1919, 1922 Pulitzer prizes), he winters in Indianapolis, summers at Kennebunkport, Me., in a home well-known as "the house that Penrod built." About 1917 he began to go blind; in August, 1930 he became completely so. Now at last, after eight eye operations. Author Tarkington is able to see again the faces of the American types he knows by heart...